Tag: Hansard Society

Public consultation or user testing?

  • July 8, 2010 at 11:34 am

  • The only difference between engaging someone in public consultation and engaging them in user testing is, as far as I can see, the type of reward they get for taking part. With user testing it’s easy: the client pays a company an extortionate amount of money to test their product; or, if it’s being done [...]

Would you like more digital engagement knowledge-sharing events?

  • April 27, 2010 at 1:52 pm

  • Well, the pilot digital engagement discussions are over. Should we do more? I only organised three and still haven’t managed to blog about two of them yet. Still, they were good: Simon Whitehouse talked about ‘Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey‘ and Ordnance Survey OpenData, I looked at the Hansard Society’s recent report [...]

‘Digital Citizens and Democratic Partipation’: discussion outcomes

  • April 20, 2010 at 8:15 am

  • Last night I ran the second of my small-scale research sharing sessions, this time on the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. I hadn’t had time to plan properly (and still haven’t got around to blogging about Simon’s Ordnance Survey OpenData presentation from last week) but we still managed to have a long [...]

‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement’ report: what does it say? Come and discuss it at Moseley Exchange

  • April 16, 2010 at 5:08 pm

  • Earlier this week Simon Whitehouse enlightened us about Ordnance Survey OpenData (which I still haven’t blogged about); on Monday I will share my limited understanding of the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. It’s not the easiest report to make sense of: I would have liked fewer paragraphs full of percentages and [...]